Residents noticed the trucks lining Second Street on Thursday and stopped to take a closer look.

"I saw the trucks as I was walking down, and I thought, 'I wonder what's going on here?' And I asked one of the gentleman and he said, 'Yeah, they're shooting a series here,'" Mike Glenn said.

The production crew can't release a lot of details about the new TV series, but it stars Chloe Sevigny as a police detective and James D'Arcy as a forensic psychiatrist, or profiler, who work together to find serial killers.

Sevigny was shooting a few scenes inside a house that the crew is using for the show, which is based on a Danish television series of the same name.

"I am completely shocked," said Tina Reed, who lives on the street where the crew was shooting. "Usually, anything doesn't happen on this side of the city. It's always downtown Pittsburgh. So for something to go on in this area, it's great."

"To be honest with you, I was pleasantly surprised. You know what I mean? Because I think it's something really positive for the community," Glenn said.

It's unclear how long production will continue in Rankin, but residents and borough officials agree that the invite to come back is an open one.

"This is a good thing. It's putting Rankin in a nice spotlight," Rankin Police Chief Ryan Wooten said. "I love it. They can come back to Rankin as much as they want."

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